I mean, who cares about two dingbats of negligible political stature and the crap they spout? Aside from their handful of followers and, of course, those on the fringe right, not many. Kucinich looks to be on his way out in Ohio, possibly carpetbagging his way into my state. Gods forfend. As to McKinney, I've heard of her exactly two times in my life, once in a post by Larry and now in yours.

The real problem, as I see it, is that you've weighted vocal support from the left so that it's as wrong as the real political support (money, arms, training and whatnot) offered/pushed by the right. I can't accept that. The low level of background violence you cite for the authoritarian regimes we support in the Gulf is false in the sense that the need for violence in those states is obviated because the dissidents and violent malcontents not rounded up by internal security forces are exported to neighboring states and, once in a while, the West. Oh, the irony.

The reply you made stating that the right has far less need to support dictators nowadays, that it was really about anti-communism, is one that I pretty much agree with entirely. But if that was your real intent in making the original post, then you expressed your idea poorly.

Now, what's truly notable about the (far-) left is not the hypocrisy-they're politicians,after all. Rather, it's the impotence.




Ahmadinejad isn't a dictator; he's Khamenei's dog on a leash. *quibble*